Tobacco and public health
Subtitle: science and policy
By: edited by Peter Boyle ... [et al.]
Contributors: Boyle, P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 798
Subjects: Tobacco -- Physiological effect; Tobacco use -- Government policy; Tobacco use -- Prevention
Description: Covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern time. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the success and failures of tobacco control policies. Deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index